Scouring implement



April 7, 1925. 1,532,904

R. B. KINGMAN SCOURING IMPLEMENT Filed May 14, 1924 IN V EN TOR.

Patented Apr. 7, 1925.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

RUSSELL B. KINGHAN, OF ORANGE, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOB TO THE OHORE-UTENBILS CORPORATION OF AMERICA, OF ORANGE, NEW JERSEY A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

SCO'URING IMPLEHEN T.

Application filed Kay 14, 1924. Serial No. 718,182.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that LRUssELL B. KINGMAN, a. citizen of the United States, residing at Orange, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Scourmg Implements; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description-of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to characters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification. This invention relates, generally, to an improved kitchen utensil or scouring implement; and the invention has reference, more particularly, to an improved construction of kettle, pot and pan scouring device.

The invention has for its principal object 0 provide an article of the kind above meniened, which consists of an abrading eleent preferably made of a metallic fabric Ted upon itself to form a spongiform i m s, a handle'member, and a novel means for securely fastening the abrading element lle member.

@ther objects of this invention, not at this time more particularly enumerated, will be clearly understood from the following detailed description of the same.

FL-ch the various objects of this invention in view, the same consists, primarily, in the novel construction of scouring implement hereinafter set forth; and, the invention consists, furthermore, in the novel arrangements and combinations of the several devices and parts, as well as in the details of the construction of the same, all of which will be more fully described in the following specification, and then finally embodied in the claims appended thereto.

This invention is clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is a side elevation of the novel scouring implement, made according to and embodying the principles of this invention; Figure 2 is a similar view in part vertical longitudinal section, to show the means of fastening the abrading element to the handle member, this View alsov showing, in dotted presentation, the abrading element and fastening devices before the same are 'operatively assembled with the handle momher; Figure 3 is a top view of the scouring implement; Figure 4 is a similar top view of the securing implement, showing a slightly modified form of fastenin means for operativel Y assembling the aorading element with t e handle member; and Figure 5 is a perspective view of the modified form of fastenin means shown in connection with said Figure 4:.

Similar characters of reference are employed in all of the hereinabove described views, to indicate corresponding parts.

Referring now, more especially to Figures l to 8 inclusive, the reference character 6 indicates a handle member, which is preferably made of wood or some similar material. Said handle member 6 is provided with a concave seat or socket 7 at one end, and the exterior of the body of the handle member, at the end possessing said concave seat or socket, is tapered or chamfered, as

at 8, to meet the outer margin of the seat,

or socket '4', and thus form at said margin an acute annular gripping edge 9.

The abrading element is constructed from a tubular knit fabric. This fabric may be all metal, that is, one which is knit from a thin ribbon-like metallic wire or strand, preferably of non-corrosive character, such e. g. as copper; or the fabric may he made of tubular knit yarn, or mixed tubularknit yarn and metal straudsto provide a composite material. l metal tubular knit fabric however, since such a fabric, when made up into a spongiform mass, provides an abrading element producing a maximum of ahrading ethciency. In malrin up the abrading'element, 1 take a suitable length of tubular knit fabric, and roll it endwise upon itself to form, preferably, an annular or ring-like member, which, due to the mesh of the fabric out of which it is thus formed, re-

vsults in a springy and highly porous or spongiform mass, thereby providing an abrading element 10, which is not only of exceedingly high abrading efficiency, but which is sufiiciently yieldable or conformable to a surface against which it is pressed as to effectively engage such surface, even even when the latter is an ular or irregular in contour. I do not claim the above de-, scribed all metal abrading element per so. since the same is already described and prefer to use the all loo I convenient, if a handle member for manipulating the same is attached thereto, and, therefore, this invention relates to a combination with such, or any other type or shape of, abrading element, of the novel handle member above described andJa novel means for securely and effectively attaching the former to, the latter.

The novel fastening or attaching means for securing the abrading element 10 to the handle member 6, comprises a metallic keeper plate 11, and a fastener, preferably in the form of a staple 12.

The assembling operations are preferably performed upon a punch press. The handle member 6 is supported in a jig, withthe end thereof which possesses the seat or socket 7 upward. The annular abrading element 10 is laid upon the end of the handle member, with its inner circumference overlapping the acute gripping edge 9. The keeper plate 11 is larger in diameter than the diameter of the central opening of the annular abrading elementlO, so that its marginal portions overlap the inner circumference of the latter. Preferably the keeper plate 11 is initially provided with an upwardly presented convex center portion, as indicated at 13 in the dotted representation thereof shown in Figure 2. The punch of the punch press is so shaped, as to force or reverse the convex center portion 13 and drive the same downwardly upon the bottom of the concave seat or socket 7 of the handle member 6 to form a depressed seated portion 14, and in so doing causes the marginal portions of the keeper plate 11 to be deformed to provide an annular gripping lip 15, which pinches and'tightly grips theinner circumferential portions 16 of the annular abrading element 10 against the acute gripping edge 9 at the margin of the concave scat orsocket 7 of the handle member, as shown by the solid lines in Figure 2. To hold the keeper plate 11 in the above described operative assembled relation to the handle member 6 and abrading element 10, a fastener, such as the staple 12, is driven downwardly through the depressed centrally seated portion 15 of the v keeper plate and into the body of the handle member.

From the above description and an inspection of the drawings, it,will be apparent that the abrading element 10 will be securely clamped to the handle member around the entire periphery of the end of the latter, so that the same will not wobble or 'uifseat itself in use. Furthermore, the uniform gripping of the "entire inner circumference of the abrading clement, reduces any tenddrawing, I have shown a slightly modified form of fastening or attaching means, which, nevertheless, embodies the general principles and advantages already pointed out as to the above described preferred form of fastening or attaching means. This modified form of fastenin or attaching means com-- prises, a keeper p ate17 provided with a depending peripheral flange 18, preferably having at its free ed e a plurality of serrations 19. The abrading element 10 is assembled against the socketed end of the handle member 6 in the same manner as previously described, and the modified keeper plate 17 is disposed over the abrading element so that its peripheral flange is engaged against the inner circumferential portions of the latter. A fastener of any desired kind, e. g. such as the nail 20 is driven downwardly through the center of the keeper plate 17, and into thebody of the handle member 6, While at the same time the keeper plate is driven downwardly into place in the socketed end of the handle member, so that its peripheral flange 1 clamps the inner circumferential portions of the annular abrading element against the mar inal portions of the socketed end of said handle member, thus firmly securing the abrading element in o erative attached relation to the handle mem er.

The device, with its convenient and strongly attached handle member, affords a most excellent and efficient scouring implement, for securing and cleansing various kinds of utensils or the like, and one which provides for a very effective abrading action which quickly and easily removes caked or. hardened dirt crusts'and the like from all kinds of vessels and utensils.

Having thus described my present invention, I claim 1. A scouring implement, comprising an annular sponglform abrading element, a handle member havin at one end a socket, and means for attaching the former to the latter consisting of a keeper plate having its central portion seated in said handle socket, the marginal peripheral portions of said keeper plate being engaged over the inner circumferential portions of said abrading element to clamp the same against the marginal portions of said handle socket, and a Referring now to Figures 4 and 5 of the fastener extending through said central portion of said keeper plate into the body of said handle member.

2. A scouring implement, comprising an annular sponglform abrading element, a handle member having at one end a socket, the socketed end of said handle member being externally tapered to provide an acute gripping edge at the outer margin of said soc cet, and means for attaching said abrading element to said handle member, consisting of a metallic keeper plate having its v central portion seated in said handle socket,

said keeper plate having a peripheral gripping lip engaged over theinner circumferential portion'of said annular abrading element to clamp such portion of the atter against the acute gripping edge of said hane end, anda fastener extending through a said central portion of said keepertplate into the body of'said handle member.

In testimony that I claim the invention set forth above I have hereunto set my hand this 8th day of May, 199A.

RUSSELL B. KINGMAN.

Witnesses:

GEORGE D. RICHARDS, FLORA MILLER. 

